After beating the No. 6 team in the country, Baylor clinched an outright Big 12 title. To anyone with a time machine from 2003—there’s a lot of history we should probably change if the technology exists—that might be crazier than anything else that’s happened in one of the wildest stretches in human history.
Before Scott Drew arrived at Baylor, its team accomplishment could be summarized in a paragraph. The Bears made the Final Four in 1948 and 1950. Baylor made the NCAA Tournament in 1988. That’s it. America went to war with Iraq more in 12 years than Baylor made the NCAA Tournament in 57 years.